Cover Story: Fashion Ritual

Bruce Eric Kaplan has a four-year-old daughter. “This happens every day: my wife wants her to wear dresses, but she’ll only wear these same two ugly sweats,” he says. “We have billions of outfits that she refuses to wear.”

Kaplan admits with a laugh that she may take after her father. “Yes, the people I draw don’t have a wide variety of looks. Every now and then I’ll spruce it up, like a woman will be wearing a two-piece suit as opposed to a one-piece, or a man will not be wearing a tie, he’ll just have a collar. But it’s a very limited palette in terms of clothing. I guess I like the simplicity.”